Breeding

[paulh]

mine is pure white basically and i figured since the mom is normal it would mostly make normals this will be my first time breeding

In other words, you are assuming that the normal gene is the dominant gene and the white gene is the recessive gene in a dominant/recessive relationship. This is the most common relationship and the safest to assume pending more information.

Latest information is that most of the members of the blue-eyed leucistic (BEL) complex of genes are codominant (aka incompletely dominant) to the normal gene. And many combinations can produce a more or less white snake.

List of known gene complexes in the ball python: https://www.owalreptiles.com/complexes.php

Dominant/recessive relationship:
Genes in pair | appearance
--------------------|--------------
gene 1/gene 1 | appearance 1
gene 1/gene 2 | appearance 1
gene 2/gene 2 | appearance 2

Gene 1 is the dominant gene, and gene 2 is the recessive gene.

Codominant (aka incomplete dominant) relationship
Genes in pair | appearance
--------------------|--------------
gene 1/gene 1 | appearance 1
gene 1/gene 2 | appearance 3
gene 2/gene 2 | appearance 2

Appearance 3 could be more or less intermediate between appearance 1 and appearance 2. Or appearance 3 could be more extreme than either appearance 1 or appearance 2. Or appearance 3 could be the same as appearance 1 in some parts of the body and the same as appearance 2 in other parts of the body.

The relationship between two genes is a relative relationship. It is not a built-in property of a single gene. It is quite possible for one gene to be dominant to a second gene, recessive to a third, and codominant to a fourth member of the gene complex.